/lit/ - Literature

>>19901777
>taxomony isn't real

>handily

>act like a psychopath faking normie conversation and bed many women
>act like myself and get looked at weird

>"When we read, someone else thinks for us; we repeat merely his mental process. It is like the pupil who, when learning to write, goes over with his pen the strokes made in pencil by the teacher. Accordingly, when we read, the work of thinking is for the most part taken away from us. Hence the noticeable relief when from preoccupation with our thoughts we pass to reading. But while we are reading our mind is really only the playground of other people’s ideas; and when these finally depart, what remains? The result is that, whoever reads very much and almost the entire day but at intervals amuses himself with thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walk. But such is the case with very many scholars; they have read themselves stupid. For constant reading, which is at once resumed at every free moment, is even more paralysing to the mind than is manual work; for with the latter we can give free play to our own thoughts. Just as a spring finally loses its elasticity through the constant pressure of a foreign body, so does the mind through the continual pressure of other people’s ideas. Just as we upset the stomach by too much food and thereby do harm to the whole body, so can we cram and strangle the mind by too much mental pabulum. For the more we read, the fewer the traces that are left behind in the mind by what has been read. It becomes like a blackboard whereon many things have been written over one another. Hence we never come to ruminate;* but only through this do we assimilate what we have read, just as food nourishes us not by being eaten but by being digested."

>>10182337
>You find it annoying when retarded neckbeards make 23 threads a day about a youtube e-celeb so they can argue with other retarded neckbeards about identity politics and communism vs fascism on the literature board of an anime pictures sharing forum? Haha jokes on you, we don't actually do this because we're fucking insane, we just do it because we're dicks and want to shit up your board LOL!

>>10103715
>milquetoast Canadian liberal becomes e-famous worldwide by saying government shouldn't arrest people who refuse to use pronouns literally invented on Tumblr in 2015
>acts like a foster father to a bunch of autistic NEETs, telling them to get their lives in order and avoid totalitarian, genocidal ideologies like fascism and communism
>this makes some other autistic NEETs so fucking mad that they need to spam a fucking literature board of an anime comedy internet forum with hourly hate threads, decrying him as a bad influence
>these very same people spam meta threads crying about other people shitting up the board with off-topic politics bullshit

>I want to drink this one drink to look intellectual, but I have taste buds of a child so I don't actually enjoy its taste and choose to drown it out with milk/sugar/honey/cream
Just stick to cola, pseud

>>9926107
>"""graphic novels"""
>serious stuff

How do I become good at rhetoric?

>download an epub
>only 20 pages long

>>6843187
Why do you use that word?

>it's a Stolz chapter

Why do I read so slowly /lit/? It's been two days and I've only read 30% of 1984.

(English isn't my native language)

>>6373367

EPic

Why did it all go so wrong during the 20th century?

>postmodernism
>stream-of-consciousness bullshit
>sci-fi
>YA
>fantasy series
>decline standards in poetry, (anything past 1960s is fucking garbage, the beats killed poetry forever)

How do I make myself want to read?

>"deafening silence"

>>6142512
Do people get paid to create nonsense to complain about?

For Comrade Lenin's sake just drop the 5'5" pipsqueak and practice liberation theology.

>>6123409
>Important ACLU court cases

Books to help cure a friend of Greek paganism? preferably Christian in bent

>>6100206
>My sister has posters of Stalinist propaganda in her room
Seems kinda try hard tbh. I bet she also loves Che as the bulwark of working-class unity against the racist-nationalism of capitalists.

Would you read a non-meme novel about two pepe and wojak-esque characters?

Please respond.

>>5971402
read books and stop watching nsfl porn